Major law firms give little to legal aid, study finds, By Elizabeth Olson, June 29, 2015, New York Times: “While major law firms are enjoying record revenues — more than $100 billion last year — they are donating only a tenth of 1 percent of their proceeds for legal aid to low-income people, according to a new analysis released by The American Lawyer. Such institutional giving now accounts for only 7 percent of total legal aid funding, which comes from federal, state and private sources, the publication said…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty